Feature: Hilarity in High-Def Is laughter leaving the clubs and heading online and onscreen?
Feature: Hilarity in High-Def Is laughter leaving the clubs and heading online and onscreen? By Michelle Kay If you’re in downtown […]
Kill your lawn (no, for real)
Oh, hello! It’s me, Saffron, editor of your new favourite zine, Kill Your Lawn. It’s the first new zine from […]
Check Out Some Amazing Zines Entered for the 2021 Zine Awards
Zinesters! The 2021 BP Zine Awards is officially open. Check out some of the amazing zine submissions we’ve recieved so […]
Enter the Broken Pencil Zine Awards
Celebrating international zine and self-publishing excellence since 2017. Since its inception in 2017, the goal of the Zine Awards has […]
Make a show-stopping meal with ‘Taste of Home Vol. 2’
Taste of Home Vol. 2 Zine, Various, 32 pgs, Chamomile Press, @chamomilepress, $20 Fair warning: don’t read this zine […]
‘see you later in the cyberspace’ is a relatable zine on the pandemic blues
see you later in the cyberspace Perzine, Jesseca Buizon, 72 pgs, jayymadethis.com, @jayymadethis, $12 This zine captures the distress […]
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Feature: Web Comics
Feature: Web Comics Funny web comics for laughing at By Richard Rosenbaum It’s no secret that we here at Broken Pencil […]
Feature: Soundbites from the Funhouse
Feature: Soundbites from the Funhouse Six creative types reveal what makes them laugh By Nathaniel G. Moore Elyse Friedman: “I once […]
Feature: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Feature: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore There was a time when comedy was challenging and it took people out of […]
If You Can Find it
By Liz Worth Hamilton proto-punks Simply Saucer are often cited as southern Ontario’s answer to the Velvet Underground. Their cult following […]
Black Bile is Anything but Precious
By Spencer Gordon Bored by the upper middle class, educated anxieties endlessly detailed in our major literary journals? Tired of bloodless, […]
Brave New Writing Workshops
By Brooke Ford If the feeling of disappointment over the closure of certain indie retailers is sitting heavily, if the news […]
Publishing gets Mobile with Microcosm’s Zine Trike
By Sara Ritchie In a digital world, when print feels like it is going the way of the dinosaur, Microcosm […]
For the Love of a Good Beard
By Grace Evans Rosemary Travale likes to draw things that make her laugh. The Hamilton, Ontario-based artist, participating in this year’s […]
Interview: Ken Sparling
A BP online exclusive By Brooke Ford Ken Sparling, author of self-publishedHush Up and Listen Stinky Poo Butt, For Those Whom […]
Interview: Joey Comeau
A BP online exclusive By Brooke Ford “The literary world, especially regarding headless monstrosities with incomprehensible messages from beyond the grave, […]
Riot on Campus
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